With its update of the Bioeconomy Strategy and the Green Deal, the European Commission committed itself to a transformation towards a sustainable and climate-neutral European Union. This process is characterised with an enormous complexity...
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consumer behaviour economy
Unless consumption patterns of the emerging middle class in developing countries change, bottle necks in food and energy are very likely, along with increasing environmental degradation...
Unless consumers' behaviour and consumption patterns change, by 2030, demand for food, water and energy will increase by approximately 35%, 40% and 50% respectively, compared to 2012...
Developing countries have both a growing economy and a growing consuming population, while developed countries are mostly replacement economies. Developing economies and emerging markets...
The number of people living in extreme poverty (US$1.9/day) has been reduced from 1.85 billion (35% of world population) in 1990 to 767 million (10.7% of world population)...
International Monetary Fund, A shifting global economic landscape,(2017). German Institute for Economic Research, Shrinking share of middle-income group in Germany and the US (full report), (2016)...
The growing purchasing power of the middle classes in the newly industrialised countries creates opportunities for the consumer goods industry, health services, infrastructure and education.